Television de Radio-Canada

Télévision de Radio-Canada

Type	Broadcast television network
Country	Canada
Availability	National (available in parts of northern U.S. via cable or antenna)
Owner	Société Radio-Canada
Launch date	September 6, 1952
Website Télévision de Radio-Canada

Télévision de Radio-Canada^[1] is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT.

It is the only francophone network in Canada to broadcast over-the-air in all Canadian provinces, although its programming is generally directed at residents of Quebec as opposed to francophones outside Quebec. Indeed, until the 1970s, its only stations outside Quebec were in Ottawa and Winnipeg.

CBC/Radio-Canada also operates le Réseau de l'information (RDI), Canada's first French-language news channel.

On 10 September 2007, Radio-Canada (as well as sister cable news network RDI) became the first over-the-air network in North America to broadcast solely in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, including on its standard definition signals.

Contents 1 Stations and affiliates 2 Programming 3 Slogans and branding 3.1 Past slogans 4 Ombudsmen 5 Radio-Canada HD 6 Notes 7 External links

Stations and affiliates

See also: List of Radio-Canada television stations

Of Canada's three major French language television networks, Radio-Canada is the only one that broadcasts terrestrially in all Canadian provinces. With the exception of Atlantic Canada, where a single station serves all four provinces through an extensive network of rebroadcasters, the network has at least one originating station in every province. These stations serve every major market in French and English Canada, with privately owned affiliates serving smaller markets in Quebec.

Unlike CBC Television affiliates, which often have several alternative programming sources, Radio-Canada affiliates are effectively constrained to carry network programming throughout the day, excluding local and regional programming and commercials. Radio-Canada, in fact, maintained editorial control and branding of local news programming on virtually all stations in the network regardless of their nominal ownership.

In 2008, the network acquired three of its five remaining private affiliate stations in Quebec from their former owner, Cogeco.^[2] Only the stations in Rouyn-Noranda and Rivière-du-Loup remain as private affiliates, rather than O&Os, of the network, although both stations continue to air local news programming produced by the network rather than by their individual owners.

Programming

Main article: List of programs broadcast by Télévision de Radio-Canada

Generally considered more populist than its English counterpart CBC Television, this network has certainly been the more successful of the two, as it does not face such immense competition from American networks. For most of the last 30 years it has trailed TVA in the ratings, but has recently pulled closer with a resurgent schedule including offbeat sitcoms and talk show Tout le monde en parle.

With this success, however, have come accusations of dumbing down. Tout le monde en parle replaced the long-running Sunday night arts series Les Beaux Dimanches.

News programming is anchored by Le Téléjournal, which airs nightly at 10:00 p.m.; on weeknights it includes a current affairs segment, Le Point. Local newscasts, which air during the lunch and supper hours, now also carry the Téléjournal name, i.e. Le Téléjournal Montréal. Originally, the regional newscasts had the name Ce Soir (This Evening).

	7:00 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	10:30 p.m.
Sunday †	Découverte	Et dieu créa... Laflaque	Tout le monde en parle				Le téléjournal
Monday	Virginie	Les Parent	L'auberge du chien noir		Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin		Le téléjournal
Tuesday	Virginie	La facture	Providence		Roxy	Les étoiles filantes	Le téléjournal
Wednesday	Virginie	L'épicerie	Le match des étoiles		M pour musique		Le téléjournal
Thursday	Virginie	Infoman	Enquête		Grosse vie	C.A.	Le téléjournal
Friday	Du coeur au ventre		Paquet voleur		Une heure sur terre		Le téléjournal
Saturday	Le moment de vérité		3600 secondes d'extase		Dre Grey, leçons d'anatomie		Le téléjournal

Slogans and branding

In television listings such as TV Guide, where space limitations usually require television networks to be referred to by a three-letter abbreviation, the network is normally coded as SRC (for Société Radio-Canada, the French language corporate name of the CBC as a whole.) This has no official standing as a name for the network — although the network did once experiment with using SRC as its on-air brand in the 1990s, it reverted to Radio-Canada within a few months.

Past slogans

• Prior to fall 2004: « Ici Radio-Canada » (tr. "This is Radio-Canada"). This is what the announcer said during the system cue, when the network logo is displayed on-screen. But in the early-2000s, it became a promotional slogan in its own right.
• 2005: « Vous allez voir » (tr. "You are going to see", "We will show you" (in a positive way) or "You will see").
• Current (Fall 2006): « Ici comme dans la vie » (tr. "Here as in life") and « Radio-Canada, source d'information » (tr. "Radio-Canada, source of information").

Ombudsmen

The current ombudsman of Radio-Canada is Julie Miville-Dechêne, since April 1, 2007. She was preceded by Renaud Gilbert (2000–2007), Marcel Pépin (1997–1999), Mario Cardinal (1993–1997) and Bruno Gauron (1992).

Radio-Canada HD

On March 5, 2005, Télévision de Radio-Canada launched an HD simulcast of its Montreal station CBFT. Since that time they have also launched HD simulcasts in Quebec City (CBVT), Ottawa (CBOFT) and Toronto (CBLFT). Radio-Canada HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free via DTT using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new TVs) on the following channels:

• Quebec City: 12
• Montreal: 19
• Ottawa: 22
• Toronto: 24

Notes

1. ^ Official name as stated in the CBC's annual reports, most press releases, and radio promotions. Usually Radio-Canada is used in on-air TV voiceovers, while the network's logo in print currently only carries the caption "Télévision".
2. ^ CRTC Decision 2008-130.

External links

• Radio-Canada
• Radio-Canada HD (French)
• CBC/Radio-Canada Corporate Site
• SRC history at Canadian Communications Foundation

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